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Guardianship primavera
— a first look at factors associated with having a legal guardian using a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling adults | | Author(s) | S L Reynolds |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 2, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp 109-120 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Court of protection ; Living in the community ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although guardianship is an intrusive intervention that usually removes the adult's basic civil rights, studies in the US of factors that place adults at risk for guardianship have largely been based on small studies of court files. This article uses a sample of 65,013 adults aged 19+ and a sub-sample of 15,784 aged 60+ from the US National Health Interview Supplement on Disability (1995) to examine risk factors for having a legal guardian. Results from logistic regression indicate, firstly, that the prevalence of guardianship in community-living adults is 0.3%, equivalent to more than 750,000 of the US population. Secondly - particularly for older people - increasing age, having physical or emotional limitations, a small family network, and not living with a spouse are associated with having a guardian. Decreasing size of family networks and increasing marital disruption in future cohorts of older people may suggest an increasing need for legal guardianship. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020613205 A |
| Classmark | JVC: K4: 3F: 7T |
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